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The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07
DIED

In this ci.y on the 3lst ult., MEs.
SUDW LEE BARTON, wife of Tbos.
G. Barton.
This sad death forcibly illus
trates the uncertainty Of human
lite. Only few short months
ago the youthful pair were united
10 the holy bonds Of wedlock, and
the fair bride gave promise Of a
long and useful career In less
than one hundred DAYS thereafter,
the church bell tolled forth the sad
tiding Of funeral march from the
bridal chamber TO the grave. The
stricken husband has tho warmest
sympathy of the entire community.
At the residence of his parents
go this city, on Saturday last,
WATSON JAMES. eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. +. Baskin.
Watson was a bright, intelligent
boy of eight years; the idol of his
parents and loved by all who knew
him, for his sprightliness, modesty
and gcntlomanly manners. Young
a, be was, his absence will be sadly
tclt in more than one household,
and others besides his kindred will
mourn his untimely end with a
sincere and unbidden griet.
Surrounded with difficulties and
battling with tie realities as we
grow older, we sometimes think it
is o mercy to innocent, sinloss
youth tina. they should be spared
the uials Of this life, but then il is
hard, so very hard, to surrender
our little children even into the
hands Of a loving Saviour, and
when enc gives promise of that use
faIness to society and the world,
which characterized our departed
little friend. the entire community
feels that it has suffered an ire
parable loss. May He, who tempers
the wind to the shorn lamb enable
the bercaved parents, relatives and
friends TO bear this sad affection
will christian resignation, and may
they through the eye OF faith wit
ness the joys Of the dear little boy,
as be enters the abode of the
blessed.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

The Circuit court is still in ses-
sion. and so is the Grand Jury Of
the District, and evil-doers are
quaking 10 their boots, not know
ing what is in store for them. In
holding the Grand Jury during the
sitting ofthe court Judge Houston
has made new departure, which
at first we did not appreciate, be-
cause the members, who were prin-
cipally farmers wero anxious TO
return to their homes, but after
mature reflection We are constrain-
ed to believe the policy is good,
and will very soon work a great
reformation in the mode and man
ner Of Furnishing crime.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Arkansas Traveller: 1t doau
make no difference how many good
resolutions a man makes nor how
many times he 'iesses 'ligion, ef his
blood amt right when he's born he's
bouu ter be bad pussen. Nature
puts de mean mark on man an
uebor changes her mine afterwards.
a man may be full ob deblement
an reason hisscf outen it, but eff he's
born wild lack oh principle, he'll
d;eWil1- samc lick. Judas could
no more hep betrayen his Marster
den his Marster could hep beih'
erucitied.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07
REDUCED EXPENSES.
jackson Advertiser.

The Hon. j. E. Gwin, Of Holmes,
is q candidate for the State Senate,
and has published a declaration OF
his programme. Among other
items is the following;
"lst. ] shall advocate a perma-
nent financial system for the liqui-
datiOn of the large State debt with
which we are burdened, and to
this end the reduction Of the high
rate Of interest paid on large por.
ton Of this debt and, the elm.
ination from the State debts all
debts which are fictitious, amount
ing to nearly 81 ,0O0,0O0,0 900"
This means cutting down ex.
pences, and commits its author to
reform IN one particular at least
which the representatives of the
people cannot be slow to adopt
The Office Of Public Printer should
be abolished. Instead of electing
a person to do the printing at
fixed price let the several branch
es Of the work be let out to the
lowest bidders, and see what car
be saved 10 the taxpayers.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07
A SUCCESS IN MY HANDS.

BradfeId's Female Regulator
has been a success in my hands
As a druggist l have sold it for
several years, and as 1t becomes
known it increases in popularity
until now | regard it as a standard
remedy. l have also used it in
my practice as a physician, aud al
ways with tho most gratifying
success. -6sa Yours truly,
WIN. BARTON.
Druggist and Physician, Thomson,
Ga.
Send for our Treatise on health
and Happiness Of woman, mailed
free.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07
ADMINISTRATORS SAL {
OF LAND.

pNHE undersigned Administra-
= tor, dc bonis non cum testamento
anaer0 of the Estate of James Belts
deceased, will on
TUESDAY April 18TH, 1857
Within lawful hours, at the door OF
the Courthouse in the town ofOko-
Iona, expose for sale the following
described tracts or lots of land,
lying and being in the County of
Chickasaw, as the property of
James Belts decd, to-wit Lot
No. 40 in block No. go, lots No.
430 & 431 in block No. SO, in the
town ofOkolona, Chickasaw coun-
ty. Mississippi, at public cutlery to
the highest and best bidder, for
one-half of the purchase money
cash and the remaining one halt OF
said purchase money on credit OF
twelve months from day Of sale,
with interest thereon at 10per cent
per annum from day of sale for
which purchasers are to give THEN
notes, which are to be a lien on
land for the payment thereof
JOHN d. JOHNSON,
Administrator
Mar IT 1897 0f9
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Life is burdensome, alike 90 the
sufferer and an around him, while
dyspepsia and its attending evils
hold sway. Complaints of this ma
ture can be speedily cured by TAX
ing PrickIy Ash Bitters regularly
Thousands once thus afflicted now
bear cheerful testimony IS 90 its
merits.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

The next session Of the G. A. X.
viii begin on the fret Thursday
10 August, 1857, 81 Ebenctzor
church 10 Webster county; near
Oh Greensboro.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

We regret to lose as citizens and
neighbors our good friends J. II.
Barr and family, who are about to
remove to Chattanooga, Tenn. We
learn that Mr.. Barr has formed a
partnership with T. D. Young ESQ.,
formerly Of Corinth, in the practice
of law at Chattanooga, and we have
little doubt the firm will be success.
fal. because its members deserve
success.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Pot. J. H. Henderson, the prin-
oipal ofthe Holly Springs Normal
School, paid flying visit to his
home in this city the first Of the
week. He reports his school in a
very prosperous condition.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

RES Ours is no cheap
John catch; we intend closing
out our goods and will cell at
such prices as to astonish the
buyers. Myers & Mayer.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Equitable Mortgage Company
Of Kansas City, No.

Will lend money on Improved Farming
Lands, az 10 per cent. without Commissions,
for 5 or years. any amount from $4,000 Up
can be procured, bv application 10
FRANK BURKTTT.
ar Southern branch Office At Jackson,
Mss. under the management Of Hon. h. O..
Williamson. Marcn 81, 81.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

We were pleased 20 meet TO- our
ay bis week, Hon. ". II. Nc
Donald, who represented Benton
aud Tippah counties 90 the last
Legislature. Mr.. Mcdonald is
now engaged in the Government
service, aud we are sure from our
knowledge of him as a public
official that Uncle Sam will have
no cause to complain Of him tor a
failure to dischare faithfully The
duties devolviug on him.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07
%eaeyte Lead.

o. good uniucuuberad farming lauds, 10
amounts 10 suis he times less than ven years
ORR ORR, Attorney.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

AlmOnt was brought from Ky. 10
to this country at cost Of over
two thousand dollars. He will
make the season of 1882 at our
Stables for low price Of $4,000
to Insure. One OF his COItS sold
last year in Chicago for $4,000.
This is positively his last sea-
son in this State.
R.sW. cha NDLER & co.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

~ Myers & Mayer are
Offering their entire stock of
goods at cost. Call and see
them if YOU want bargains.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

The lates, discovery i'm cooking
IS the Wire Gauze oven doors on
Charter Oak stoves, for sale at D.
A. a lens.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

We are requested 10 announce
that the students Of Buena Vista
Normal school, will give ON enter
tainmeut at the College On next
Saturday night the exercises 90
begin st - o'clock. The peo-
pie Of Okoiona and surrounding
country are specially requested 60
aUoud.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Labor disgraces no man; unfor-
tunately You occasionally fad men
disgrace labor.-Ex.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

We were gratded to meet in
our city last week +. l.. Martin,
Esq. one of the editors Of the Ntr
H"asPmgn, who was here solicit
ing subscriptions for his paper.
Mr.. Martin is a thorough gontle'
man and the H'55s5ppila is worthy
of aud should receive liberal
patronage.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Read the advertisement OF Dr..
I. II. Porter, Dental Surgeon, in
another column.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Ear Miss Molie TRIMMER.
teacher of Piano and Vocal Music.
Terms $500 per Wouth each.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

We bad @ pleasant call on Tues
tsv IRON James Burkitt Esq, OF
--l.ion.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Tfvou want a nne suit. 60 20
j. Rubel s Co.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-04-07

Mar. II, 1s872A8.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
Emperor, who was Jumbo's side-part-

Emperor, who was Jumbo's side-part-
ner with the Barnum show during the
season before last, took a fit of stubborn
ness on him in Troy, N. Y, while being
driven through the street, and he broke
away and went on o rampage: He got into
IN iron foundry and burned his feet and
then ran into crowded street. Before
he was caught and chained he had in
jured four men and woman and had
done Sd, 900 worth of other damage.
Barnum's Albert had to be shot in
Keene, N. H., after killing his keeper,
James Sweeney, or James Mccormack.
A military company of the town took
the part of executioners.
When Adam Forepaugh started in the
menagerie business he had but two ele-
plants with him. They were Romeo,
the wickedcst in the country, and Annie.
a black African elephant, the trickiest
on the road. 1t was Annie's delight to
frighten farmers teams into running
away, and she was never happier than
when she could scare cow out Of seven
years milk. Whenever she saw cow
on the road out went the big ears like
sails, trunk and tail were elevated, aud
with soul-harrowing series of trumpet.
ings Annie would make at the cow, and
in about FIVE seconds that cow. sur
rounded by cloud of dust, would disap-
pear over the horizon.
The biggest and wickedest elephant
in the country will back off from rat
or mouse, and will tremble and trumpet
if advanced upon by the little animal
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
Esuuimau Dogs.

Referring to Esquimau dog teams, Mr;
J. Fl. Hubbard said to a Montreal
Gazette reporter: There are usually
four, but very often six or eight in
team. The best dog is cross between
a wolf and a collie slut. They are not
savage, but on the contrary, are very de-
voted to the man who feeds them. They
are very peculiar IN this respect. A man
may drive team for five years and feed
them every night, but if he sells them
the buyer feeds them and thereupon he
becomes their boss. They give implicit
obedience to the man who feeds them
last. Good dogs are worth from $e5 to
$50. They used to be employed in
drawing fish from Lake Winnipeg into
the town and are often used yet by the
Indians who come in on treaty days for
their pay. When the Indians have their
sun dance they kill and eat the oldest
and most useless of the dogs, for it would
never do to have dance without a meal
of roast dog afterward. The stonies
never do this, but the Crees, the Sioux,
and some other tribes do
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
The Sea.

The temperature of the sea is the same,
varyiug only a trife from the ice OF the
pole to the burning sun of the equator.
A mile down the water has q pressure OF
over ton to the square inch. If box six
feet deep were filled with sea water, and
allowed to evaporate under the sun, there
would be two inches of salt left on the
bottom. Taking the average depth OF
the ocean to be three miles, there would
be LAYER of pure salt $50 feet thick on
the bed of the Atlantic. The water is
colder at the bottom than at the surface.
In the many bays on the coast of Nor
way the water often freezes at the bot
tom before it does above. Waves are very
deceptive. To look at them in a storm
one would think the water Travelled. The
water stays in the same place, but the
motion goes on. Sometimes in storms
these waves are forty feet high, and
travel fifty miles an hour, more
than twice as fast as the swiftest
steamer. The distance from valley to
valley is generally fifteen times the
height, hence wave five feet high will
extend over seventy-fve feet of water.
Evaporation is wonderful power In
drawing the water from the sea. Every
wear a layer of the entire sea, fourteen
feet thick, is taken up into the clouds.
The wind bears their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields to flow back at last
through rivers. The depth OF the sea
presents an interesting problem. If the
Atlantic were lowered 6,56t feet, the
distance from shore to shore would be
half as great, or 1900 miles. Iflowcred
a little more than three miles, say 10, $50
feet, there would be road of dry land
from Newfoundland to Ireland. This is
the place on which the Great Atlantic
cables were laid. The Mediterranean IS
comparatively shallow. A drying up OF
$50 feet would leave three distinct seas,
and Africa would be joined with Italy.
The British Channel is more like
pond, which accounts for its choppy
waves,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
It Helped Both Ways.

DR.. s. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia,
is almost as we'll known as story-teller
as he is as a physician. One of his sto-
ries is personal experience which oc'
Cured during the war. Reports of cru
city to the Confederate prisoners con-
fined in the military prison at Fort
Delaware were sent to the Federal
headquarters, and a committee of gentle.
men, among whom was Dr.. Mitchell,
visited the prison to investigate the mat.
ter. The reports we're found to be ex-
aggeratcd and most of the prisoners linn
tied their complaints to an insufficient
supply of tobacco. One of the men,
whose uniform showed him to be an off.
Ger, said he mad been granted his OK
change but had no money to return to
his kome. DR.. Mitchell emptied his
pockets and gave him $50. "To whom
am 1 indebted for this loan?" inquired
the officer. DR.. Mitchell told him his
name, and added: Never mind where
I live; give it to the next Union soldier
you find who needs it as badly as you do,
and shall consider that sufficient pay
ment." The doctor returned to Phila-
delphia, the war came to an end and he
had forgotten the incident of the Con-
federate prisoner, when one day a
stranger, dressed in the uniform OF a
Union soldier, entered his Office and in
ouired if he was DR.. Mitchell. The Doc
tor said he was. "Dr. s. Weir Mitch.
ell2" the man asked again. "The same, "
oo;d tho doctor t'Then have some
money to return to you which you lent
me through a Confederate officer you
found in prison at Fort Delaware. He
gave it to ME to pay my way back to the
North" and the man handed the sur
prlsed doctor $2O.-PhiladeLphia Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
Boring for Gas.

Boring for gas is exactly like boring
for oil, in all its workings: but the after
operations of pumping and packing, as
in the case of some oil-wells to raise the
oil. are not necessary in gas-wells. If
the gas is there, it will come up of its
own free will and accord. and come with
a rush, blowing tools and everything else
out of the we'll before it. Indeed, gas
men would often be as glad to keep their
treasure down as oil men are to get theirs
up. The great pressure at which it is
confined in the earth, and the correspond
ing force with which it escapes from the
we'll, make it somewhat hard to mango
or control. This pressure is enormous
as high as five hundred pounds to the
square inch in some cases where 1t has
not been gauged, the pressure is esti-
mated to have reached eight hundred
pounds to the square inch. Any attempt
to confne the gas in this we'll for the
purpose Of measuring it would doubtless
have resulted in sending iron casing
flying from the we'll, or in producing
other effects more startling and costly
than satisfactory or agreeable. Indeed,
until recently, no plan had been devised
by which the flow of gas from we'll
could be stopped or reduced. The guam
tity of gas that escapes from some wells
is enormous, but probably no correct esti-
mate of it has yet bean made. Where
the gas is ''piped" away to mills and
houses, all that comes from the we'll may
be used; but if it is not all used, the re-
mainder must be allowed to escape into
the air. This is done at the regulator,
where it is burned. The regulator is an
arrangement of pipes and valves, placed
between the gas.well and the town sup
piled with the gas. It allows only just
as much gas as is being burned in the
town to 60 on through the pipes, and so
reduces to proper and safe point the
dangerously high pressure of the gas as
it comes rushing along from the we'll
The temperature of the gas as it comes
from the wells is about forty-fve de.
grees, Fahrenheit.-St. Nicholas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Speech is the golden harvest following
the Towering of thought.
If thing is not right, don't do it; if
it it is not true, don't say it.
It is happy thing for US that this is
really oil we have to concern ourselves
about-what to do next.
Opportunities are very sensitive things.
If you slight them on their first visit,
they seldom come again.
He is happy whose circumstances suit
his temper; but he is more excellent who
can suit his temper to any circumstances.
Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many, not on
your past misfortune, of which all men
have some.
Our sentiments, our thoughts, our
words lose their rectitude on entering
certain minds, just as sticks plunged in
the water look bent.
If man does not make new acquaint-
ances as he advances through life, he
will soon find himself alone. A man,
says Dr. johnson, should keep his friend
ship in constant repair.
The memory is perpetually looking
back when we have nothing present to
entertain US; it is like those repositories
in animals that are filled with stores of
food, on which they may ruminate when
their present pasture fails.
To strive to forget enemies, or to
throw out to them only friendly thought,
is as much an act of self-protection as it
is to put up your hands to ward of
physical blow. The persistent thought
of friendliness turns aside thought Of
ill-will, and renders it harmless.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
"Sandbagging" in Chicago.

Belated pedestrians are nightly way
laid, "slugged," and robbed in all parts
of the city. The dcftness which charac-
terizes many of these jobs suggests the
clean action of that noted exponent of
highway robbery, Patrick Kent, and,
were it not for the fact that Mr.. Kent is
spending the second of series of winters
to be passed within the walls of Joliet,
the police would say he was the. man
with the bag. Patrick Kent, the ablest
man in the profession, terrorized the
residents on the avenues east of State
street two years ago. Within a month
he sandbagged twenty-five persons and
carried off considerable plunder.
"Sandy" Kent had system. He knew
many of the high-sala.ied men in and
all about the business houses on the
south side; knew their pay days and the
amount they received, and when they
would start for their homes. In this
way he was enabled to pick out the man
who had stuff, and he himself said that
he never dropped man without being
we'll paid for his trouble. The persuader
he used was long canvas bag one and
half inches in diameter, with about
eighteen inches of the length filled with
bird shot. Then there was about six
inches of slack for handle. No matter
how heavy blow was struck it would
not fracture the skull, but it was sure to
knock the victim insensible. ....
"Winter is the proper time for going
bagging, said Kent few days before
he went to State prison. 1t is the only
time in which the work can be done
safely, and the night must also be dark.
Your man must be picked out early In
the day, and you must know the route
he takes to his home. Of course he is
bundled up. Men going home after dark
business men-are like COWS going
home to be milked; they take the same
path all the time, see9 Well, what's the
matter with bein' in an alleyway when he
is about to pass2 If you want to be sue
cessful you must wear rubber shoes. then
you can sneak up when his back is turned
and do him. He's stunned for a couple
of minutes and gives you time to 60
through him. He doesn't know who
struck him, an the chances are two to
one that you'll escape. But never soak
the stuff: that's how I was caught"
The only way to escape collision with
sand Dagger is to provide yourself with
q 44-calibre revolver and take the mid
die of the street when going home or to
work at late hour. Mr.. Kent has pre-
scribed this rule, and his authority can
not be questioned. Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
Amputated Fingers Reunited.

"Numerous instances have been re-
corded of late in the medical journals, 1"
says Science, 'of the complete reunion
of portions of fingers which had been cut
off from the hand, in some cases by the
knife and in others by the ak. In one
case a man, in cutting his kindling for
the morning fire, accidentally cut off the
end of his thumb. He had gone from
the place some twenty feet when he re,
turned. picked up the end, wiped it and
replaced it, binding it in its original
place as nearly as possible. The wound
united, and the finger is now as good, as
ever, save that its sensibllity IS somewhat
diminished. In another case boy
chopped off the ends of three fingers.
He was seen by physician three or four
hours after the accident. The end of the
fingers had been found in the snow, and
were brought to him. He attached them,
and two of the three united"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-09
Refused to Leave His Command.

Of Brigadier- General GLADDEN., this
anecdote is related by the Atlanta Con-
stitut,on. lie had his left arm shattered
BY O. ball on the first day of the fight at
Shiloh. The staff surgeon hastily per
formed the amputation on the field, and
the brave officer mounted his horse and
continued to command. On Monday he
was again in the saddle. Tuesday he
was still in command. Wednesday a
second amputation near the shoulder was
necessary and Gene5d sddsr Dtas ta ss Sei if he
would not be relieved. "Give General
Bragg my compliments" he said, "and
saw that General GLADDEN. will only give
un his command to go into his coffin"
Against all remonstrances, he continued
to sit in his chair receiving dispatches
and giving directions. In the afternoon
lockiaw seized him and he died.